Roland JX-8P - Operation - Performance Controls Part 2; Portamento and Key Mode

3)
Portamento
The
portamento
effect will
be
on by
setting
thie Por-
tamento
Switch to ON .
The
time
needed
for
a
sound
to
change
from a pitch
to
the
other can be
altered
by
using
the
Portamento Time Knob
®.
4)
Key
Mode
Select
The
JX-8P
contains
6
sound modules.
Six
dif-
ferent key
assign modes
are provided to
decide how
these 6
synthesizer modules
will
be
assigned to
the
keys
played.
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POLY with the
Indicator lighted
This mode
turns the
JX-8P to
a
6
voice
polyphonic
synthesizer
assigning
one
syn-
thesizer module to
each key
pressed.
This
is
suitable for the
sound whose
envelope
curve
is similar to
piano's
or
guitar's,
therefore chosen
for usual
performance.
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POLY
with the
Indicator
flashing
This mode
is very
similar
to
Poly mode
above
assigning only one
synthesizer
voice
to
each key pressed.
The
primary
advantage of this
mode
is that
only the
last note
or notes played
together
receive
natural
release
length.
This
mode is
suitable for
the
performance
with por-
tamento
effect.
SOLO
with the
Indicator
lighted
This
mode
turns
the
JX-8P to
a
single
voice
synthesizer
that
assigns
one module
to
each key.
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SOLO with the
Indicator
flashing
This
mode
turns the
JX-8P
to the
monophonic
synthesizer
that
assigns 6
modules
to
one
key pressed.
Please
be
sure
that you
are
not touching
any key on the
keyboard
while changing
the
key modes.
Otherwise,
JX-8P
will lose
the sound.
If this
happens,
release the key
once, then
press
the key
again.
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UNISON
with the
Indicator
lighted
In
this mode, two
sound
modules
are
assigned
to
each key,
therefore the
created
sound
is richer
than in
Poly mode.
That
is, the JX-8P
becomes
3
voice sy-
nthesizer.
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UNISON
with the
Indicator
flashing
This
is similar to the
Unison
mode
above,
but
the one
module
of the two
modules
is one
octave
lower than
the
other.